Sales-book



(No Model.) l

H. KIRKWOOD. SALES BOOK.

No. 600,869. u Patented Mer. 8, 1898.

UNiTnb STATES PATENT OFFICE IIUGII KIRKVOOD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SALES-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,369, dated March 8, 1898.

Application filed July 3, 1897. Serial No. 643,319. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH KIRKwooD, of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sales-Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sales-books for use in stores and by which account of sales may be kept conveniently. Such books are intended not only to keep a record of the goods sold to a customer, but also to carry the balance forward, one book being appropriated to each customer and all orders of such customer being entered therein, the customer being given one sales-slip, while the duplicate is retained in the book. Such books are of considerable thickness. It is necessary to employ carbon-sheets withthe same in order that the duplicate record may remain. Heretofore much annoyance has been experienced by merchants owing to the wearing out or tearing of the carbon-sheets, most books having but one such sheet and all those provided with more than one sheet having all of their carbon-sheets secured from one point, so that in folding and opening the sales-book the sheets are aptto be torn.

The object of my invention is to provide a sales-book with its carbon-sheet so arranged that one carbon-sheet need only be used for a few of the salesslips, and after the first few slips have been torn out a new carbon-sheet is presented for use.

The invention consists generally in a salesbook of the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawbook embodying my invention. sectional view thereof.

As shown in the drawings, the book comprises a back 2 and the pad or tablet 3, made up of original and duplicate sheets, all bound together between the back 2 and the cover 4. The original sales-slips 5 are perforated on the line 6. The duplicates are not perforated, as they remain in the binding, as shown in Fig. 2. Opposite the binding edge or bottom of the book I arrange a pile 7 of strips, preferably made of cardboard 8, between which the ends 9 of two or more carbon-sheets 10 are secured. The carbon-sheets are thus fastened at different heights above the back 2, so that they may be conveniently used for opposite parts of the pad or tablet 3. When the original sheets have been torn from the tablet, so that the solid part of the tablet is decreased in size, the carbon-sheet above the same is torn out, as shown at 1l in Fig. 2.

While my invention is very simple, it has proved to add materially to the convenience of using sales-books.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent* The combination, in a sales-book made up of original and duplicate sheets suitably bound, with a backing bound therewith, and the strips 8 arranged at the end of said backing opposite the binding edge of the book, and carbon-sheets secured between said strips and at different heights or distances from the backing, Vas and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of June, A. D. 1897.

HUGH KIRKWOOD.

In presence of L. PAULLE, C. G. HAWLEY.

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